Myths and stories, where they come from real folk materials, people make them grand and mysterious through imagination, and make them beautiful and bright through point moistening, even if the ending is unsatisfactory, the purpose of the story is to advocate people to pay attention to the beautiful and positive side of the event.
To put it simply, mythological stories are all the type of "only telling warmth without saying anything", so let's choose Huainanzi Liu An's version of Chang'e to the moon to explore!
At the critical juncture when Chang'e was coerced by gangsters, she swallowed the elixir and flew to the moon in a hurry, although she was extremely nostalgic for the world, and had no choice but to part, it became an unchangeable fact, she burst into tears in the process of ascending, and turned back three times until she disappeared into the sky.
Later, Yi lost Chang'e and suffered a major mental blow, and since then he has been seriously ill, lost his divine power, and became a sick man who was in a state of collapse and washed his face with tears every day. This logic can explain why we haven't heard of the follow-up story of "Hou Yi avenged Chang'e", and it can also explain why Hou Yi "has the ability to shoot down nine suns, but he did not shoot down the moon to save his beloved wife?".".
Hou Yi, who has changed from a macho man to a sick man, has not forgotten to pay tribute to his former beloved wife Chang'e for the rest of his life. Every year on the day of Chang'e's ascension on August 15, he bathes in incense, sets up a melon and fruit feast, worships the moon, and tells his feelings of longing. His infatuation and piety touched a certain immortal, so the immortal pointed out a way to reunite with Chang'e, and asked him to make cakes from flour and knead them into the shape of a moon, and place them in the northwest corner of the house at the third watch in the middle of the night on August 15, and at the same time call Chang'e's name, or they can meet again. It was the night of the full moon on August 15 of that year, Hou Yi did it, and the miracle really happened, only to see a small black dot slowly flying from the moon, flying closer and closer, flying closer and closer, and looking at it, it was really his wife Chang'e, who he thought about day and night.
It is said that the Xi of eating mooncakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival of our Chinese nation has been passed down in this way, and the descendants of Houyi have continued this tradition from generation to generation and gradually popularized the public.
Hou Yi is a person of great affection, but also a realistic person, the continuation of incense is a responsibility to the family and country, he must have continued the strings later, otherwise where would the descendants come from?Although Chang'e was only his ex-wife and did not leave him a son and a half heir, Hou Yi still taught his children and grandchildren not to forget his respect and remembrance of Chang'e. This is also a kind of human touch in the traditional Chinese family concept!My grandfather and grandfather both continued after the death of their first wife, but when they worshipped their ancestors during the New Year's holidays, all the children had to worship his ex-wife, whether it was born or not. This human touch is also the glue that strengthens family relationships, which are unfortunately gradually diluted and deserted.
The myth is beautiful, but the truth of the fact is that the so-called immortal medicine may be a highly poisonous medicine. At the critical juncture when Chang'e was coerced by the gangsters, in order to preserve her chastity, she swallowed poison in a hurry and died. After Chang'e suffered an unexpected death, Hou Yi could not come out of his grief for a long time, and then listened to the words of the Taoist priest, put incense on the night of the full moon, offered moon cakes, and called his wife's name, which is the "soul conjuring technique" performed on the deceased soul in Taoism. The soul cannot be summoned, but the living will be psychologically comforted, thinking that the deceased has already come and enjoyed the offerings, which is the same as the reason for our hometown to worship the ancestors and summon the soul during the New Year's Festival.
The second idea is about Chang'e.
There is a not-in-a-common saying that Chang'e is a toad and a toad is Chang'e. This statement is based on the not-so-beautiful version of Chang'e running to the moon, believing that Chang'e was selfish and stole the elixir given to Houyi by the Queen Mother of the West, and obtained the Tao alone**. When the Queen Mother of the West learned about it, she was furious and turned Chang'e into a toad, but this toad was spiritualized because she took the immortal medicine, and the Moon Palace was the mirror image of its conjure, so the Moon Palace was also called the "Toad Palace", and the idiom "Toad Palace Zhegui" became the most powerful evidence for this statement.
There are also a small number of people who believe that the jade rabbit represents the moon, because the ancients believed that rabbits have many children and live a long life, and each child is pregnant for 30 days, which is exactly one month, that is, the time when the moon goes around the earth, so the rabbit is the essence of the moon. The replacement of the sun and the moon, the cycle of day and night is "the golden black falls in the west, and the jade rabbit rises in the east", the rabbit is the moon, and the moon is the rabbit.
When it comes to the Moon Palace, the first thing that comes to our mind is Chang'e, but the toad and the jade rabbit seem to be vying for the position of this spokesperson.
Guanghan Palace, gorgeous and magnificent, silent and silent, except for the occasional Dharma ceremony and gathering designated by the Heavenly Court, the daily scene is cold. Even though there is a Yaochi Qionglin, a carved fence of jade steps, there are more wandering in the emptiness, which is an irresistible loneliness.
Day after day, year after year, time has no concept here. Chang'e, who became an immortal because of swallowing the elixir, did not experience the process of other immortals cultivating to become an immortal, in fact, when she first arrived in the immortal world, her cultivation was not enough and immature. Then the long and lonely years in the Guanghan Palace were the process in which she needed to make up for her lack of cultivation, which was both a remedy and a test.
In the night sky, the bright moon seems to be the eyes of the universe, quietly watching the world. She watched Hou Yi worship the bright moon and tell her longing, watched him finally let go of his knot and married another woman, and watched their children and grandchildren ...... endlesslyWatching a son of heaven and a courtier, taking turns on the stage, watching human beings perform one short and absurd farce after another for their own interests. This disturbing world, like those days waiting for him to come home, the stage is playing endless singing, she is tired, sleepy, and ......confused
In the haze, Chang'e felt that her spirit had left her body and floated under the laurel tree, turning into a snow-white jade rabbit, bouncing and jumping around the thick trunk of the tree hugged by several people. She thought it was very interesting, and when she cast her mana again, another spirit broke away from her body and transformed into a golden-backed toad to play with the Jade Rabbit.
The empty and lonely Guanghan Palace suddenly became more interesting, and Chang'e became good friends with the Jade Rabbit and the Toad, and they always cooperated well. The toad picks fairy grass and brings in all kinds of rare medicinal materials: Langcai from the blue sea, Qingdi from Liuyuan, vermilion from Yunshan, and Jiahe ...... from TaiweiThe jade rabbit is responsible for pounding medicine, sometimes the toad will also take a hand, in some ancient murals, the toad lifts the tripod, the jade rabbit stands upright like a person, waving the pestle to pound the medicine, the two cooperate tacitly.
This assumption is that there is no Jade Rabbit and Toad in the Moon Palace, and these two small animals are hallucinations caused by Chang'e's long-term suffering from great loneliness, and she fantasizes that she has a golden toad and a Jade Rabbit by her side to be her pets. Or Chang'e uses mana and immortal arts, like Sun Wukong plucking his hair and turning into a monkey, conjuring two small animals to accompany him. The scary thing about this idea is that the toad is Chang'e, and the jade rabbit is also Chang'e, and these three are actually three bodies in one, and they are all Chang'e herself.
In the human world, this symptom of being alone from oneself to accompany oneself due to long-term loneliness will be defined as mental or personality disorder.
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